Destination

2024-12-30

To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices

Anti-algorithm tactics and human moderators need to keep the web honest. [...]

Destination

2024-12-30

A cat pooped on an airplane. What happened next sparked a viral airline saga.

A cat poops mid-flight. Their owner tosses it in the trash and gets kicked off their connecting flight because of the smell. Who was in the wrong? [...]

Destination

2024-12-30

9 new emoji we could get in 2025

Unicode, the emoji design company, released 9 designs that could be approved in 2025. [...]

Destination

2024-12-30

Notes on a panic: Y2Ks 25th birthday

Twenty-five years after reporting on Y2K, Mashable senior editor Chris Taylor reflects on the phenomenon. [...]

Destination

2024-12-30

The US Treasury Department says it was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack

Documents and workstations at the US Treasury Department were accessed during a cyberattack, The New York Times reports. The attack was linked to a "China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat actor" and has been characterized as "a major cybersecurity incide [...]

Destination

2024-12-30

The best Playdate games for 2025

Owning a Playdate comes with the perk of already having access to 24 games at no additional cost from the bundled-in Season One — and some pretty good ones to boot. But there are a ton of great games outside the Season One offerings too, for when you’ve finished the whole bat [...]

Destination

2024-12-30

Huge Volkswagen data leak exposed the locations of 460,000 EV drivers

A Volkswagen software subsidiary called Cariad experienced a massive data leak that left 800,000 EV owners exposed, according to reporting by the German publication Spiegel Netzwelt. The leak allowed personal information to be left online for months, including movement data and c [...]

Destination

2024-12-29

Despite intense AI arms race, we’re in for a multi-model future

There will be no single model that will rule the universe, neither next year nor next decade. Instead, the future of AI will be multi-model.  [...]

Destination

2024-12-29

Five breakthroughs that make OpenAI’s o3 a turning point for AI — and one big challenge

OpenAI’s o3 tackles specific hurdles in reasoning and adaptability that have long stymied large language models. At the same time, it exposes challenges, including the high costs and efficiency bottlenecks inherent in pushing these systems to their limits. This article will exp [...]